Author Biography and Bibliography

Jeffrey Ford is the author of a trilogy of novels from Eos Harper Collins: The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond. His most recent novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Morrow/Harper Collins), was published in June 2002 as was his first story collection, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant & Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press). The summer of 2005 will see the publication of Ford's sixth novel, The Girl in the Glass, from Harper Collins (August 2005), and a stand-alone novella, The Cosmology of the Wider World, from PS Publishers (June 2005). His second collection of short stories, The Empire of Ice Cream, will appear in March of 2006 from Golden Gryphon Press. His short fiction has appeared in the magazines Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sci Fiction, Event Horizon, Black Gate, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, MSS, The Northwest Review, and Puerto Del Sol and in the anthologies Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Vols. 13, 15, and 16, Years Best Fantasy of 2002, The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest, Leviathan #3, Album Zutique, Witpunk, The Silver Gryphon, The Dark, Trampoline, Thackery T. Lambshead's Guide to Exotic & Discredited Diseases, and Polyphony #3. His stories have been nominated multiple times for The World Fantasy Award, The Hugo Award, The Nebula Award, and once each for The Theodore Sturgeon Award and The International Horror Guild Award. He is the recipient of three World Fantasy Awards and one Nebula. Ford lives in South Jersey with his wife and two sons. He teaches Writing and Literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County, New Jersey.





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